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Cattle moved to neighbouring villages for water
The dairy farmers of the mandal headquarters of Devarakadra have been facing severe shortage of fodder and water for the cattle this year. The deficit rainfall this year resulted in drying up of all irrigation and village tanks in the mandal.
DAIRY FARMERS’ DILEMMA
Devarakadra (Mahbubnagar): The dairy farmers of the mandal headquarters of Devarakadra have been facing severe shortage of fodder and water for the cattle this year. The deficit rainfall this year resulted in drying up of all irrigation and village tanks in the mandal. They requested Lalitamma, sarpanch of Pedda Rajamur village to allow them to keep their cattle at the village. Some of the farmers moved their cattle to Nagaram village too.
Since the two villages are situated near Koilsagar project the groundwater is plenty and water in the irrigation tanks is also reasonably well. About fifteen farmers from Devarakadra took their cattle about 300 in number to Pedda Rajamur village. While some of the milch cattle were kept on the premises of house of the sarpanch, some other farmers took the cattle to the houses of their relatives. Some more dairy farmers kept the cattle on the outskirts of the village where fodder is available in plenty. They employed watchmen to safeguard the cattle.
Every day the farmers go to Pedda Rajamur both in morning and evening to milk the cattle and bring milk back to Devarakadra to deposit at the milk chilling centre. Ramu, one of the farmers, said that the farmers wake up at 4 am to go for milking the cattle and the transportation charge has become additional expenditure. Another farmer, Hanmesh said that in addition to the additional expenditure on personal transportation, they carry fodder on their bikes which may cause accidents. However, the milk production has also come down due to the migration, he rued.
Ramesh said that the shifting of cattle to the neighbouring village is not a viable proposition. “Actually we are incurring loss,” he added and appealed to the government to sink a common bore well for all the cattle of all the farmers. Sarpanch Lalitamma said that there is plenty of water in our village and on humanitarian grounds we welcome the dairy farmers to bring cattle here.
Moreover, the dung of the cattle is being used as manure for our fields, she added. It may be recalled that the Devarakadra mandal is in the forefront in milk production in the district and sends two to three thousands of litres of milk everyday to the district headquarters. It is high time the government took initiative to help the farmers.
